After finishing it, I wanted to focus on the other books I was reading but the ending made me start the Mistborn: Secret Histories novella right away.

The novella takes place in Era 1 (at least as far as I have read) but the recommended order is after The Bands of Mourning, as mentioned at the end of the book. Pretty interesting so far.

Still Readings Ultra-processed Food by Chris van Tulleken and The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Caroll, but at very slow pace. Going to focus on them one at a time to speed them up.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Missed this post last week but since then I have done a few things.

I finished the last current Trader book.

I listened to the first Outlanders book which turns out to be set 100 years after the Deathlands books and references a lot of things established in those books but also even just in this first answers a lot of questions that hadn't been made apparent about the history of the Deathlands so along with Trader being set 40 or so years before they are all giving a good amount of information on the setting and lore and filling in lots of blanks.

I also got the newest Deathlands, number 157, which was OK.

I listened to the newest "Beware of Chicken" by casual farmer. This is number 5 and I really enjoyed going back and visiting that setting again. It fleshed out a lot more of the main characters back story as well as a couple of epilogues that filled in some side characters back stories some more, it was a good time.

And currently I am just over half way through Shopocalypse Saga book 7 "BuyMort Singularity". This is set 100 years in the future from where the last book left off which left you thinking the main character was dead, this follows his return and him catching up with how the universe has changed in his absence as well as how his legend has been incorrectly told leading him to be some what demonised. It then goes on to tell about how he begins to reaffirm his presence in the universe and try to take back some of the power he once held. Again I am really enjoying returning to another setting I know and enjoyed in the past!

It has been a busy couple of weeks!

[–] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's lots of stuff, but I guess this can be expected with Deathlands out of the picture 😀

How will you rate Trader books?

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd probably rate it similarly to Deathlands as I was enjoying it, just not enough of it yet for me to fully get into it but I enjoyed the fact it was a continuing story. The trader as a character was in the very early Deathlands books and I didn't particular like him but in these newer books with him as a younger man I didn't mind him anywhere near as much.

How do you feel about the Mistborn second era as a whole now that you finished it? I didn't realise there was a novella, I might need to look that up!

[–] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, there's still a book left. 4 books in total in Era 2. Will let you know after I finish that, but it seems to be getting even better!

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh shit, I thought it was 3, I need to get back onto this!

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

Hehe, have fun!